Dell PowerEdge Server Portfolio Sports AMD Opteron 6200 Processors

The processors sit in the PowerEdge R715 and R815 rack servers, the PowerEdge M915 blade server and the PowerEdge C6145.

Technology giant Dell introduced enhancements to its PowerEdge
server portfolio with AMD (NYSE: AMD) Opteron 6200 Series processors
for better energy efficiency and performance for enterprise
applications, the Web, private clouds and virtualization. The company
offers the AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors in its PowerEdge R715 and
R815 rack servers, the PowerEdge M915 blade server and the ultra-dense
PowerEdge C6145.
With up to 16 cores per processor, the AMD processors achieve up to
24-84 percent better performance helping applications to run more
effectively, according to AMD. The PowerEdge M915 supports four
high-performance AMD Opteron 6282SE processors, enabling it to
outperform HP's Proliant BL685c G7 blade servers by up to 8 percent,
based on reports published on the Standard Performance Evaluation
Corporation's Website.

For customers seeking to save data center space, the high-density
Dell PowerEdge R815 provides four processors in a 2U chassis compared
to the 4U designs of the HP DL580 and HPDL585. "Highly virtualized
environments and scale-out workloads like cloud and Big Data are
changing the dynamics of the data center," said Sally Stevens, vice
president of server platform marketing for Dell.

"From economical 2-socket platforms to high-performance 4-socket
blades and ultra-dense servers, Dell PowerEdge systems are tuned to
deliver outstanding performance and scalability," she explained. "Our
customers want to be able to do more work in less space, and we're
giving them that capability with a complete AMD-based server portfolio
that allows them to effectively manage high volumes of system traffic
while reducing workload costs."
Built specifically to drive higher compute in less space, the Dell
PowerEdge C6145 delivers enhanced performance, increased scalability
for virtualization with less overhead and more efficient scale-out
economics for cloud computing. The PowerEdge C6145 now packs up to 128
AMD 6200 Series processor cores in 2U with shared infrastructure that
is designed to increase server density and a feature set that helps
minimizes power drain. As a result, customers such as the National
Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) are able to handle
massively parallel applications at 2-3 times less cost compared to
typical 4-socket processing.
"NCSA's iForge supercomputer helps improve the design and
manufacturing of a variety of products, from aircraft engines to mobile
phone networks," said Evan Burness, project manager of the private
sector program at the NCSA. "NCSA's early testing of the PowerEdge
C6145 with Opteron 6200 series processors demonstrates excellent
performance and parallelism across a range of commercial engineering
applications. Dell and AMD have done a superb job creating a powerful
and balanced HPC solution, and one that we believe helps deliver a
distinct competitive advantage to our partners as part of iForge."

Nathan Eddy is Associate Editor, Midmarket, at eWEEK.com. Before joining eWEEK.com, Nate was a writer with ChannelWeb and he served as an editor at FierceMarkets. He is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.